Developer
"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
Jasper Hamill
AGI
Altman Shrugged: OpenAI boss updates his ever-changing countdown to superintelligence
Sam Altman issues another teasing semi-prediction about a "gentle singularity" and the dawn of artificial general intelligence (AGI)
OpenAI
Is OpenAI's Codex "lazy"? Coding agent accused of being an idle system
"It needs to have the self-awareness to know whether it’s actually done the work and the humility to apologise when it hasn’t."
Defence
Battlefield vibe coding and the open source future of drone warfare
After Ukraine used Ardupilot-powered drones to blow up Russian nuclear bombers, what's next for open source combat?
Security
Organic panic as top Whole Foods supplier becomes latest victim of retail hackers
United Natural Foods (UNFI) discloses a security incident and outage that's threatening expensive organic food supply chains across the US.
OpenAI
OpenAI warns of "elevated security and safety risks" as Codex goes online
New coding agent can now roam free online, running the risk of malware infection, code exfiltration, prompt injection and other digital horrors.
Meta
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
Cybersecurity
Cartier and North Face cyberattacks: Retailers hit as threat actors "smell blood in the water"
Hackers target a pair of new victims after blitzkrieg against famous high street brands including M&S, Harrods and the Co-op.
Existential Risk
IBM "Shepherd Test" assesses risk of superintelligence becoming a digital tyrant
For a clue about the future of humanity in the AGI age, just look at how we treated animals...
AI Safety
OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"
Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.
Defence
UK announces £5 billion investment in laser beams and killer robots
Labour vows to "deliver the biggest increase in defence spending since the Cold War" after hitting Britain with the biggest tax burden since WWII.
Agentic AI
Salesforce boss slams "alarmist" AI jobs doom fears, celebrates "dramatic reduction in humans"
Marc Benioff, CEO, thinks white collar workers have a future after all - even though his firm is using millions of AI agents to do their work.